SPRING PRACTICE PERIOD: Stories from the Lotus Sutra

Dogen-Zenji so cherished the Lotus Sutra that he actually carved a selection of it into his door. This, the core text of not only Zen but the whole of Mahayana Buddhism, has never lost its appeal among practitioners of the Way. Join us for our SPRING PRACTICE PERIOD: Stories From the Lotus Sutra led by Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Sensei Genzan Quennell

Tag Archives | Buddhas

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: Prof. Dunne investigates the meaning of ethics in the Buddhist world. Specifically focusing on the complicated relationship between non-dual traditions, such as Mahāmudrā or Zen, and ethics. Prof. Dunne begins by discussing “natural” ethics, which in Buddhism is codified as the dasa-sila, or Ten Precepts. He then moves on to work with the […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: Fresh from working with Latin American immigrants in dire circumstances in Arizona, Upaya’s Shinzan Palma speaks movingly (and movedly) about bringing our practice to the front lines — bringing the front lines to our practice. The plain though subtle fact is, our acts and being echo “throughout space and time.” The light left […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: In this talk Sensei Kathie discusses Dogen’s “Ocean Mudra Samadhi” and Japanese Soto Zen forms by analogy to biological evolution. She offers practices inspired by our evolutionary inheritance: touching the earth, sitting in gravity like a mountain, and “amoeba practice”: moving — or sitting — from the inside out. Due to technical difficulties, the […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: This session continues where the previous left off, with Roshi Bernie taking a number of questions from the participants. The first question concerns Indra’s net, which leads Bernie into a discussion on the possibility of escaping the space-time continuum. The next question concerns “going deeper and deeper.” Which for Bernie means going “broader […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Series Description: The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (ca. 150 C.E.) famously articulated the notion of emptiness or sunyata as a tool for understanding ultimate reality. Based on selected primary texts such as his Wisdom, this seminar explores Nagarjuna’s thought and its powerful effect on subsequent Buddhist philosophy. Inquiring into the key concept of sunyata, we will […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: In this final dharma talk of the Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roshi Joan Halifax send the audience into peals of laughter as they explore with humor and insight what it means to practice Buddhism, what it means to practice with difficulties, and what it means to serve. Teacher Biographies: Joan Halifax […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: Sensei Kaz continues his exploration of the Four Noble Truths; Enkyo Roshi looks at the story of Sudhana’s pilgrimage in the Avatamsaka Sutra and considers what counts as spiritual medicine; Roshi Joan reflects on Rohatsu sesshins past and present and the experience of entrusting ourselves to one another. Teacher Biographies: Joan Halifax Roshi […]

TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST please enter or confirm your email address below:

To listen to the free dharma talks on this site, we'd like to invite you to our mailing list.
After entering your email, this page will reload, and you will have instant and unlimited access to the hundreds of dharma podcasts on this site.

Episode Description: Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the theme of buddhas and bodhisattvas. Teacher Biographies: Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked in the area […]